Networker

The Networker software can be accessed by issuing the following command as the root user.

export DISPLAY=clientpc:0.0
networker

Once the GUI has run you can use it to define devices, label and mount tapes etc. The scripts used later assume that the
necessary tape devices have been defined and the tape being mounted is already labelled.

RMAN Tape Backups

Once the LSSV software is installed RMAN backups to tape can be done by defining the default device type as follows.

Once this parameter is defined RMAN uses the libobk.so library as the media manager by default. In this way RMAN is able to work with any supported third party media manager by simply creating a symbolic link called libobk.so which points to the vendors media management library, in this case liblsm.so.

A tape backup can be done using a script like the following which is run from root.